Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Quotations
Music
Tragedy absorbs the highest musical ecstasies, and thus brings music to a state of true perfection.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
-Richard M. Nixon
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
-Martin Luther
Ruling piano keys is harder than ruling a whole kingdom.
-Yazan Haddadin
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.
-Rob Sheffield
"Love is a Mix Tape"
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
-Michael Jackson
